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B-17 making stop in CdA

The WWII B-17 Flying Fortress Sentimental Journey will arrive at the Coeur d'Alene Air Terminal on Monday and be available for flights through Thursday. Courtesy of Sentimental Journey (Courtesy of Sentimental Journey / The Spokesman-Review)
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The WWII B-17 Flying Fortress Sentimental Journey will arrive at the Coeur d'Alene Air Terminal on Monday and be available for flights through Thursday. Courtesy of Sentimental Journey (Courtesy of Sentimental Journey / The Spokesman-Review)

COEUR d’ALENE – If you or your kids have never seen a B-17 Flying Fortress up close, come to Coeur d’Alene Air Terminal and see the B-17 Sentimental Journey, flying in at noon on Monday for the Arizona Wing of the Commemorative Air Force.

Sentimental Journey will be on public display at the air terminal through Thursday. A $5 donation is requested to tour the plane. Flights are available in the restored WW II bomber for $425 per person, with a minimum of five persons per flight. Call (602) 448-9415 for more information.

Sentimental Journey is a flying memorial and museum of the men who flew and crewed these airplanes, as well as the men and women who built them more than 50 years ago during the war, and especially to the crews that did not return. The B-17 was famous for the daylight bombing raids over Germany and could sustain such battle damage that the aircraft lived up to its name of the Flying Fortress. Out of 12,731 built, there are only about 10 restored and airworthy examples remaining.

All tour proceeds benefit Sentimental Journey. Members of the Arizona Wing of the Commemorative Air Force are volunteers, and the Commemorative Air Force is a nonprofit organization.